Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>

Cc: "Inoue, Hiroshi" <inoue@tpf.co.jp>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2014-02-12T23:21:18Z

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MinGW: Link with shell32.dll instead of shfolder.dll.
- 53566fc0940c 9.5.0 cited
Centralize getopt-related declarations in a new header file pg_getopt.h.
- 60ff2fdd9970 9.4.0 cited
Get rid of use of dlltool in Mingw builds.
- 846e91e0223c 9.4.0 cited
Export a few more symbols required for test_shm_mq module.
- 7d7eee8bb702 9.4.0 cited
Export set_latch_on_sigusr1 symbol for Windows.
- 708c529c7fde 9.4.0 cited
Use SHGetFolderPath instead of SHGetSpecialFolderPath to find the
- 889f03812916 8.1.0 cited

Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 02/12/2014 02:31 PM, Inoue, Hiroshi wrote:
>> Maybe this is one of the few use cases of dlltool.
>> Because python doesn't ship with its MINGW import library, the
>> Makefile uses dlltool to generate an import library from the python
>> DLL.

> Wow. Has anyone been in touch with the Python package maintainers to see
> if they can fix that and bundle the .lib ?

Indeed somebody should pester them about that, but it's not clear how
much it'd help us even if they fixed it tomorrow.  We're going to have
to be able to build with existing Python distributions for a long time
to come.

			regards, tom lane